... in the agricultural southern economy; the World War I industrial boom in the North; growing oppression in the South. The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities was characterized by "push" and "pull" factors. Severe racism and discrimination by white southerners, particulary members of the ... sates that, "This in turn, resulted in serious health problems, which gave Harlem the highest infant mortality and general mortality rates in New York City." III. The Emergence of the Renaissance Admidst all the social problems mentioned, the Renaissance began. It was an importan...

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... the popularity of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass-roots sensibility of the New Negro in much the same way the civil rights movement under the visionary leadership of Martin ... The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from Langston Hughes' weaving of the rhythms of African American music into his poems of ghetto life, as in The Wary Blues (1926), to Claude McKay's use of the sonnet form as the vehicle for his impassioned poems attacking...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance elevated the unique culture ... before had so many Americans read the thoughts of African-Americans and embraced the African-American community's productions, expressions, and style. The movement centered in the vast black ghetto of Harlem, in New York...

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